1. Energy sector:

– Mineral oil and gas refineries;

– Installations for gasification and liquefaction;

– Thermal power stations and other combustion installations with a heat input of 50 megawatts (MW) or more;

– Coke ovens;

– Nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactors including the dismantling or decommissioning of such power stations or reactors

1) Nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactors cease to be such an installation when all nuclear fuel and other radioactively contaminated elements have been removed permanently from the installation site.

(except research installations for the production and conversion of fissionable and fertile materials whose maximum power does not exceed 1 kW continuous thermal load);

– Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel;

– Installations designed:

– For the production or enrichment of nuclear fuel;

– For the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste;

– For the final disposal of irradiated nuclear fuel;

– Solely for the final disposal of radioactive waste;

– Solely for the storage (planned for more than 10 years) of irradiated nuclear fuels or radioactive waste in a different site than the production site.

2. Production and processing of metals:

– Metal ore (including sulphide ore) roasting or sintering installations;

– Installations for the production of pig-iron or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including continuous casting, with a capacity exceeding 2.5 tons per hour;

– Installations for the processing of ferrous metals:

(i) Hot-rolling mills with a capacity exceeding 20 tons of crude steel per hour;

(ii) Smitheries with hammers the energy of which exceeds 50 kilojoules per hammer, where the calorific power used exceeds 20 MW;

(iii) Application of protective fused metal coats with an input exceeding 2 tons of crude steel per hour;

– Ferrous metal foundries with a production capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

– Installations:

(i) For the production of non-ferrous crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic processes;

(ii) For the smelting, including the alloying, of non-ferrous metals, including recovered products (refining, foundry casting, etc.), with a melting capacity exceeding 4 tons per day for lead and cadmium or 20 tons per day for all other metals;

– Installations for surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical process where the volume of the treatment vats exceeds 30 m3.

3. Mineral industry:

– Installations for the production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tons per day or lime in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;

– Installations for the production of asbestos and the manufacture of asbestos-based products;

– Installations for the manufacture of glass including glass fibre with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

– Installations for melting mineral substances including the production of mineral fibres with a melting capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;

– Installations for the manufacture of ceramic products by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tons per day, and/or with a kiln capacity exceeding 4 m3 and with a setting density per kiln exceeding 300 kg/m3.

4. Chemical industry: Production within the meaning of the categories of activities contained in this paragraph means the production on an industrial scale by chemical processing of substances or groups of substances listed in subparagraphs a) to g):

a) Chemical installations for the production of basic organic chemicals, such as:

(i) Simple hydrocarbons (linear or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic);

(ii) Oxygen-containing hydrocarbons such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, acetates, ethers, peroxides, epoxy resins;

(iii) Sulphurous hydrocarbons;

(iv) Nitrogenous hydrocarbons such as amines, amides, nitrous compounds, nitro compounds or nitrate compounds, nitriles, cyanates, isocyanates;

(v) Phosphorus-containing hydrocarbons;

(vi) Halogenic hydrocarbons;

(vii) Organometallic compounds;

(viii) Basic plastic materials (polymers, synthetic fibres and cellulose-based fibres);

(ix) Synthetic rubbers;

(x) Dyes and pigments;

(xi) Surface-active agents and surfactants;

b) Chemical installations for the production of basic inorganic chemicals, such as:

(i) Gases, such as ammonia, chlorine or hydrogen chloride, fluorine or hydrogen fluoride, carbon oxides, sulphur compounds, nitrogen oxides, hydrogen, sulphur dioxide, carbonyl chloride;

(ii) Acids, such as chromic acid, hydrofluoric acid, phosphoric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, oleum, sulphurous acids;

(iii) Bases, such as ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide;

(iv) Salts, such as ammonium chloride, potassium chlorate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, perborate, silver nitrate;

(v) Non-metals, metal oxides or other inorganic compounds such as calcium carbide, silicon, silicon carbide;

c) Chemical installations for the production of phosphorous-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilizers (simple or compound fertilizers);

d) Chemical installations for the production of basic plant health products and of biocides;

e) Installations using a chemical or biological process for the production of basic pharmaceutical products;

f) Chemical installations for the production of explosives;

g) Chemical installations in which chemical or biological processing is used for the production of protein feed additives, ferments and other protein substances.

5. Waste management:

– Installations for the incineration, recovery, chemical treatment or landfill of hazardous waste;

– Installations for the incineration of municipal waste with a capacity exceeding 3 tons per hour;

– Installations for the disposal of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;

– Landfills receiving more than 10 tons per day or with a total capacity exceeding 25,000 tons, excluding landfills of inert waste.

6. Waste-water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 150,000 population equivalent.

7. Industrial plants for the:

a) Production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous materials;

b) Production of paper and board with a production capacity exceeding 20 tons per day.

8.

a) Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic and of airports

1) For the purposes of this Convention, “airport" means an airport which complies with the definition in the 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organization (Annex 14).

with a basic runway length of 2,100 m or more;

b) Construction of motorways and express roads;

2) For the purposes of this Convention, “express road" means a road which complies with the definition in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries of 15 November 1975.

c) Construction of a new road of four or more lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing road of two lanes or less so as to provide four or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned and/or widened section of road, would be 10 km or more in a continuous length.

9.

a) Inland waterways and ports for inland-waterway traffic which permit the passage of vessels of over 1,350 tons;

b) Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading connected to land and outside ports (excluding ferry piers) which can take vessels of over 1,350 tons.

10. Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water abstracted or recharged is equivalent to or exceeds 10 million cubic metres.

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